Rick Ranum
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Has anyone figured out how to clean audio files folder in sonar?
The problem that still exists is trying to scan the clean the audio folder of unused files in sonar but then it crashes every time. So what is the safe way to delete these files? Thanks for your help
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CakeAlexSHere
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Re: Has anyone figured out how to clean audio files folder in sonar?
2018/01/05 18:57:41
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FWIW I logged a couple of bugs on this about 4 years ago.
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joakes
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Re: Has anyone figured out how to clean audio files folder in sonar?
2018/01/05 19:02:08
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Nope it doesn’t matter at all Alex “Bug Hunter”
FWIW to the OP, cleaning audio files works fine for me and doesn’t crash Sonar Plat.
What exactly are your steps to reproduce Alex’s “bug” ?
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Re: Has anyone figured out how to clean audio files folder in sonar?
2018/01/05 19:10:50
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The Cakewalk audio scanner really needed an update no doubt. Try using the CWAF tool instead.
FWIW, The Clean Audio folder works well for me. its takes a long time to do an initial scan (the first one) but if you keep sonar open and scan new projects it will be quicker the second time around because excluded disk folders are remembered in Memory only. this is a downfall.
If the scanner is waiting, don't keep clicking on it either. that will surely cause a crash because there is too much going on as scanning takes up huge amounts of Disk activity. Let the scanner do its job and wait. Sometimes it takes as long as 5 minutes for the first scan to complete.
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Re: Has anyone figured out how to clean audio files folder in sonar?
2018/01/05 19:18:08
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joakes
What exactly are your steps to reproduce Alex’s “bug” ?
Ask "Cakewalk" (whoever they are) and use Google, some of it was discussed. This was just a bunch of legacy code that never worked very well and really didn't get maintained (usual story), including that Audio finder thing, and I don't care any more. One of the few where I actually got confirmation from Cakewalk for I think.
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jbraner
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Re: Has anyone figured out how to clean audio files folder in sonar?
2018/01/05 20:29:22
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☄ Helpfulby BobF 2018/01/06 23:38:09
Hey Rick,
The best way is save a song to a new folder. then you'll have one folder for the song and all it's files. do this for each song.
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Re: Has anyone figured out how to clean audio files folder in sonar?
2018/01/05 20:32:07
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jbraner
Hey Rick,
The best way is save a song to a new folder. then you'll have one folder for the song and all it's files. do this for each song.
This was always the best way of cleaning a project folder. My audio folders tend to get completely out of control - like when you're dragging tons of one shot samples onto a track to audition them in the project, and each time you do that the file is copied to your audio folder. Gets to a point where I always save as a new project in a fresh folder to get rid of them.
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Re: Has anyone figured out how to clean audio files folder in sonar?
2018/01/05 20:35:21
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joakes
Nope it doesn’t matter at all Alex “Bug Hunter”
FWIW to the OP, cleaning audio files works fine for me and doesn’t crash Sonar Plat.
What exactly are your steps to reproduce Alex’s “bug” ?
Best,
Jerry
What's with the scare quotes around "bug"? Either it is a bug or it isn't. And FWIW, "clean audio files" crashes have been reported quite often on the forum.
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Re: Has anyone figured out how to clean audio files folder in sonar?
2018/01/05 21:21:49
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Re: Has anyone figured out how to clean audio files folder in sonar?
2018/01/05 21:24:25
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save as
Just make sure the filename, project, and audio file paths are set correctly. Copy all audio with project should be set by default.
I usually rename the folder and project file by adding "old" or whatever to it then open it do a save as with the original name. If everything looks good I will then delete the "old" named project.
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Rick Ranum
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Re: Has anyone figured out how to clean audio files folder in sonar?
2018/01/06 04:40:09
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Thanks everyone for your input. I was able to use CWAF scan to pull up audiofiles but noticed that some of them say referenced and some say orphaned. So I hope the orphaned ones are the samples that have been discarded from a project. Tried to scan the clean audio folder several times but it just causes sonar to crash. Give me any feedback about the samples that are called orphaned.
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craigr68
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Re: Has anyone figured out how to clean audio files folder in sonar?
2018/01/06 22:20:41
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I just discovered CWAF about a month ago and it works well for me, especially after many frustrations with hanging/crashing running the clean audio folder routine. With CWAF I click on the Status column so it sorts them where all the orphaned files are at the top. Then I highlight these orphaned files and choose Move Wave - another window opens - I choose Recycle Bin to move them there. Then I do rescan with Find to make sure they're moved and that I got them all. Then every once in a while I clean my Recycle bin. I've never had any problems with doing that but I also do project backups regularly just to make sure. By the way, the referenced files are your good files that belong to projects which I wouldn't mess with.
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